Viewership through Facebook

MarcM

I may have missed this somewhere, but does Ezoic not cache views that come from website whose views are coming through the social media platform? Please tell me I misread that somewhere.

Thanks.

Emily

MarcM there are some instances where pages referred by social media sources have unique URLs for each visitor - e.g coming from facebook, pages sometimes have the parameter /?fb and then a unique query string. This would stop the page getting cached for subsequent users in Ezoic. But the workaround would be to add the social media parameters to the excluded URL parameters app in Ezoic. e.g Stats for www.example.com?ref=fb and www.example.com?ref=twitter would both be under www.example.com in our Big Data Analytics, and the parameter would be ignored by our optimisation tools.

MarcM

Emily Okay so instead of wwe.example.com <- what do I put in its place? Do I place my website's URL www.prowrestlingpost.com or if I use Buffer, do I use that one in the event that I am using it on FB? Could you share a screenshot of how i would include that in the Big Data Analytics? I'd appreciate it. I'm a visual learner 🙂

Mohammad2306

You can update this in your Ezoic dashboard. You'd log in to your publisher dashboard and go to Settings -> Content -> Excluded URL Parameters -> Enable Excluded URL Parameters.

MarcM

Mohammad2306 Is that correct?

Emily

MarcM The example we usually use is given a url such as 'www.example.com?ref=fb&abc=123&hello=world', valid parameters to enter would be 'ref', 'abc', and 'hello'

MarcM

Emily Is this better?

HarryB

In the example url that's provided, you'd just enter 'ref' 'abc' or 'hello' instead of the full url. These are just to show you how the app works though - you'll need to find the parameter itself on the end of your own urls that you want to exclude, in order to get this to work.